Re: booting Beaglebone Black

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On Jul 5, 2024, at 12:26 AM, Dr. Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I had difficulties with be BB Black a few months ago.
> 
> Please look in this mailing list at my post of 25-Apr-2024,
> subject: "Can't boot 10 images on BeagleBone Black".
> 
> Follow that thread, you will be able to boot, I was.

Thanks for the information.

Yes, the problem is absolutely a too-old u-boot.  As this thread indicates u-boot 2022.04 boots fine with the EFI bootloader, as does 2024.04; 2018.11 and 2019.04 do not and just reset the CPU.

On April 27, it looks like a request was made to update the version of u-boot being used to produce the armbsd images [1]. Currently, the armbsd HEAD image is using u-boot 2022.04 and does boot.  However, the armbsd 10.0 image is still using u-boot 2018.11, which does not.

Please update the armbsd build procedure and replace the BBB 10.0 image with one that works, i.e., that uses the same u-boot 2022.04 as being used for the HEAD image.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,
Brook

[1] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2024/04/27/msg008703.html